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I would also remark that a cable composed` of corrugated metallic wire and a exiblecovering of gatta-perche or other suitable materil. al may be used to advantage for standingrigging for navigable vessels as well as for'various other useful purposes, the elastic property of the cable in a longitudinal direction tending 4 to keep the rigging drawn straight, andto operate with good e'ect in severaLother respects.

I claim- A :As a new orimproved manufacture, an electric-telegraph cable, (orone constructed iu part of metallic wire,) as made so as to bev elastic inl t ternal covering.

lenthwise, or with such corrugatone or bends Il or wires and its or their exor wires, or in the circuit and other wires, as

will

Witnesses:

insure elasticity'of the cable in a longituas specified.

JOHN ABSTERDAM.

R.A H. EDDY, Anunmz NEILL.

or simply in the circuitwirel. 

